‘Human rights campaigners have launched a landmark legal bid to determine whether homeless people are being “criminalised” by fines against begging and leaving bedding in doorways.’
Rights Info, 8th November 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘A county court has disallowed a court fee after finding the claimant had failed to apply for remission. District Judge Jenkinson, sitting at Liverpool County Court, ruled in Stoney v Allianz that the £455 fee was not a disbursement reasonably incurred and was not recoverable.’
Law Society's Gazette, 11th November 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A legal secretary who claimed she felt humiliated and insulted by a colleague commenting on her 50th birthday has lost her claim for harassment and age discrimination against the law firm.’
Legal Futures, 8th November 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court will next week consider whether parts of the Communities Secretary’s guidance on the investment of Local Government Pensions Schemes relating to UK foreign and defence policy were for an unauthorised purpose.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th November 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
The law reform group Justice has called for a radical overhaul of exclusions amid concerns that too many schools do not fully understand their legal duties and that the appeal process available to parents wishing to challenge an exclusion is inadequate.
The Guardian, 11th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Alaina Wadsworth, Ben Brown, Ed Foss and Thomas Pangbourne, who all work within the Insurance & Reinsurance Group at CMS, comment on the decision handed down by the UK Supreme Court on 30 October 2019, in the matter of Travelers Insurance Company Ltd v XYZ [2019] UKSC 48.’
UKSC Blog, 11th November 2019
Source: ukscblog.com
‘This appeal was on the issue of whether a local authority and the First Tier Tribunal could take into account previous convictions that were spent under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 in deciding whether an applicant for a Housing Act 2004 licence was a ‘fit and proper person’.’
Nearly Legal, 10th November 2019
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has lifted practising restrictions on a finance director who was sanctioned less than three years ago, over the objections of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).’
Legal Futures, 11th November 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The UK government has announced an immediate moratorium on fracking. The decision came after new scientific analysis concluded it was not possible to “rule out future unacceptable impacts”.’
Rights Info, 11th November 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘A man who murdered his ex-partner in a “wicked” pre-planned operation has been sentenced to life in prison.’
The Independent, 9th November 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Justice officials in England and Wales are facing renewed calls to deal with thousands of prisoners still jailed under an abolished Kafkaesque sentencing regime that a report has branded “deeply harmful” for families.’
The Guardian, 10th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A High Court judge has rejected a legal challenge brought over the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s decision to make a traffic management order imposing additional parking restrictions in an area with a Sikh Temple.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th November 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Romanian man has pleaded guilty to the murder of an artist nearly six years after she was bludgeoned to death while house-sitting for wealthy friends.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The justice system “will break down” and allow crimes to go unpunished if the next government does not provide hundreds of millions of pounds in investment, it has been warned.’
The Independent, 11th November 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice is to be sued by the mother of a five-year-old boy who was murdered by her boyfriend after an inquest concluded that defects in the probation system contributed to his death.’
The Guardian, 9th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Expert witnesses who “fall short of the mark” face a “much more and properly robust” response from the courts, a recently retired Court of Appeal judge has warned.’
Litigation Futures, 11th November 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Law schools are not taking advantage of the “enormous regulatory freedom” they have and instead are largely all offering the same kind of law degree, new research has found.’
Legal Futures, 11th November 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The family of a 17-year-old girl brutally murdered by a fellow sixth-former the day after she ended their relationship have said the killer should never be released from prison.’
The Guardian, 8th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Bailey & Ors v Glaxosmithkline (UK) Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1924 (08 November 2019)
Jet 2 Holidays Ltd v Hughes & Anor [2019] EWCA Civ 1858 (08 November 2019)
Farrar & Anor v Rylatt & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 1864 (08 November 2019)
Lal v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1925 (08 November 2019)
High Court (Family Division)
Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956 (Fam) (08 November 2019)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Dorman & Ors v Clinton Devon Farms Partnership [2019] EWHC 2988 (QB) (07 November 2019)
Source: www.bailii.org
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